To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
Near-synonyms: loiter, roam
An aimless stroll.
Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden.
One who mooches; a moocher.
"No! I'm sick of you being a mooch, bumming off me all the time! I'm going to London for a few days."
From Middle English moochen, mouchen (“to pretend poverty”), from Old French muchier, mucier, mucer (“to skulk, hide, conceal”), from Frankish *mukkjan (“to hide, conceal oneself”), from Proto-Germani...
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Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).
If we take Scaramucci’s 10-day figure to be the standard of measurement — one “mooch” — then Pruitt survived an amazing 50.3 mooches, even while enduring more than a dozen scandals, any one of which would have doomed a lesser man.